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...moldering Venetian palazzo in the late 19th century sit two desiccated women. Miss Bordereau (Franchise Rosay) is 100 or so and has wrung life dry; her old-maid niece. Miss Tina (Wendy Hiller), has had life squeezed out of her. In swirls a worldly dandy, Henry Jarvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dust in Venice | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...Maurice Evans), a publisher and a cultish worshiper of a long-dead American Byron named Jeffrey Aspern, whose mistress Miss Bordereau once was. Jarvis is avid for literary mementoes-the Aspern papers. He coaxes Miss Tina to be his ally, in terms that seize her poor fluttery soul with a fantasy of love. Upon Miss Bordereau's sudden death, Miss Tina, tormented into boldness, names a price for the papers too devastatingly high for Jarvis to pay-marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dust in Venice | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Radio fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catcher Unmasked | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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